For the first two weeks, he was temporarily replaced by the team's sub cowTard. You can catch all the action on Riot’s official stream.During the Season 3 European LCS, Bjergsen was unable to play with his team until Week 3 due to age restrictions put in place by Riot Games. As is a tradition for North America, the first match will feature the last split’s finalists, Team Liquid vs Cloud9. The 2020 NA LCS Spring Split will start on January 25, 2 pm PT. I wonder if the NBA founders behind Golden Guardians are aware that tanking is not viable in the LCS. They even have a former Mid and an ex-ADC player in Support. Golden Guardians roster changesĢ020 is another budget year for Golden Guardians. Anthony “Zikz” Gray is the new head coach. 100 Thievesġ00T are going back to 2018 roots, with William “Meteos” Hartman and Sun “Cody Sun” Li-Yu returning to the starting lineup. The “new” additions are Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage and Lee “IgNar” Dong-geun. And a cheeky announcement video.Īs is tradition, FlyQuest keeps recycling players that peaked about three seasons ago but can still compete. Once again, a returning brand (and ownership) brought a new set of players. Love me some Paul “sOAZ” Boye and Jake Kevin “Xmithie” Puchero! Evil Geniuses join the NA LCS The Immortals management parted with every former OpTic player and started anew. Zhang “Peter Zhang” Yi completed his two-year redemption arc in Academy and was promoted to coach the main squad. TSM news is fun: Vincent “Biofrost” Wang came home, Kasper “Kobbe” Kobberup jumped on board to fill the Danish quota, Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett finally made it back to a Big 3 lineup. Dignitas Roster for 2020 as depicted by Shakarez on Twitter | Source: on Twitter Team SoloMid roster Perhaps the only bright spot is Henrik “Froggen” Hansen, who has been going at it since 2011.

Dignitas more of the same?Īfter retaining Heo “Huni” Seung-hoo on a reported salary of $1.15 million per season, DIG was mostly forced to pick up leftovers as they spent a reported 1/3 of their budget just on Huni. Kim “SSONG” Sang-soo coached the rival in 2018, while Andy “Smoothie” Ta was TSM’s support in Season 2019. Counter Logic GamingĬLG team replaced Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage with the 2017 World Champion, Lee “Crown” Min-ho, and then turned to former Team SoloMid members. Zven had barely finished his two-year contract with Team SoloMid. After 6.5 years of sporting the Cloud9 jersey, Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi was benched in favour of Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen. The reported transfer fee amounted to $1.5 million. Cloud9Īfter losing Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen and Tristan “Zeyzal” Stidam to Evil Geniuses, C9 promoted Robert “Blaber” Huang to the sole Jungler and bought Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme from Dignitas. Interestingly, Doublelift was sceptical of Liquid’s only change, recalling how TSM tried to chase perfect by signing Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen and subsequently lost what made them good during Doublelift’s reign. Team Liquid roster changesįollowing another Worlds group stage elimination (5/5 for Doublelift over the 5 years), Liquid opted to replace Jake Kevin “Xmithie” Puchero by Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pedersen (Worlds 2018 finalist with Fnatic). NA LCS 2020 – Roster Changes | Source: Gamepedia NA LCS 2020 – Roster Changes | Source: Gamepedia NA LCS 2020 – Roster Changes | Source: Gamepedia Clutch Gaming rebranded to Dignitas, and the Immortals brand rejoined the LCS after the transition period from OpTic Gaming purchase. Also, Evil Geniuses bought out Echo Fox’s spot in the league and shopped around North America and Europe for their brand new squad. All teams in the LCS have opted for a roster change (or four).

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